Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday blamed U.S. sanctions and pressure on the United Nations and Syria’s neighbours for the reticence of more than 5 million refugees who fled the conflict there to return. “There are many hurdles,” Assad said, citing U.S. sanctions at the...

The Syrian Response Coordinators Group maintains that the settlement proposed by the Russian-brokered refugee conference in Damascus will not be viable as long as Russian and regime forces are still in control in Syria. On Tuesday, the Group stated that regime and Russian media...

Zaman Al-Wasl has obtained intersecting information about the arrival of a suspected perpetrator of violations against Syrians to Germany a few days ago as part of the "family unification visa" program. The sources provided the investigation team to pursue war criminals against the Syrians...

The Hezbollah member convicted of the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri should receive a life sentence, even though he remains at large, prosecutors said Tuesday. Salim Ayyash was found guilty in absentia of murder by a UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the...